Word: paper
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Considerable interest has been taken in a device invented by Irving Fisher, '88, for registering the strokes of oarsmen. A roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it, and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully reproduces the length, strength and peculiarities in each stroke...
AMERICAN ECONOMIC AND HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS.A joint session of the American Economic Association and the American Historical Association will be held in Sanders Theatre, on Tuesday, May 24, at 3 p.m. A paper on "The Study of Statistics in Colleges" will be read by Carroll D. Wright, U. S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics, one on "Our Legal Tender Decisions," by Professor E. J. James, of the University of Pennsylvania, and one by Dr. A. B. Hart, on the "Biography of a River and Harbor Bill...
Duplicate lists should be written on separate cards, each the size of a postal card. The lists should not be written on paper slips, and must be written on one side of the cards used. Care must be taken to hand in both the duplicate lists, each being precisely like the other in all respects...
...imagine nothing which would have a more decided tendency to foster ill will, and controversy between two colleges. In days gone by the college paper would comment on the discourtesy shown in failing to applaud good plays of the college opponents, while now the zeal of the paper is expended in cultivating the most aggravated form of local and selfish applause...
...machine has recently been invented by Fisher, '88, of Yale, for registering the stroke of oarsmen. It reproduces on paper the length, strength and peculiarities in each stroke, and affords an accurate means of determining the superiority of one man over another. Robert Cook, who is now at New Haven coaching the 'Varsity crew, expresses himself pleased with the workings of the machine, and recommends it as a useful aid in coaching...